Charges filed in deadly Greenwich Village bus-truck crash

Rob Nelson reports

February 14, 2014 8:08:05 AM PST

Eyewitness News

NEW YORK --

A 22-year-old Georgia man has been charged with manslaughter and other offenses after police say he stole a delivery truck that struck an MTA bus in Greenwich Village Wednesday, sending both vehicle careening into scaffolding and killing the bus driver.

Police say they received a report about the stolen truck around 5:30 a.m. and determined that it was the vehicle involved in a collision at 7th Avenue and 14th Street.

Two parked cars were also struck.

The bus driver, 49-year-old William Pena of Hillside, New Jersey, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of the truck, Dominic Whilby of Griffin, Georgia, was taken into custody and treated for non-life threatening injuries at Bellevue Hospital.

Three others, including two bus passengers and a coffee cart vendor, suffered minor injuries.

Whilby reportedly had a 0.18 blood alcohol reading, twice the legal limit. The assistant district attorney told the judge that he "was in New York for less than half a day before he began his reign of terror on the citizens of New York County."